The Learning Garden: Ecology, Teaching, and Transformation

This book tells the story of building a campus “Learning Garden” over a series of cohorts of student teachers and environmental education students. The garden began with high ideals, no funding, and a strong desire to “do something” about the environment. The result was a transformation in attitude toward nature, community and toward the learning process itself. Described through three metaphors (garden as environment, garden as community, garden as transformation) this book provides a bridge of theory and practice for ecology-centred teaching and learning. As new teachers and teacher educators decide how to include “the environment” and principles of “sustainability” into their lessons, this groundbreaking text provides a bridge between theory and practice and guides the reader into the ways that teaching in the natural world changes how people learn, and, how they teach. (From the Publisher)